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    Posted: April 21 2011 at 9:47pm

Hello my name is Sean! I met a few of you during the reef tour. I am new to utah, we moved here from Montana last year. I will be moving a tank into our new apartment this weekend and am in need of some advice and possibly help with my setup. If anyone has any advice on how to best move my recently purchased 55g tank. It comes with a canister filter and a few other things. I will need a test kit and some advice. If you want to call me i'm on the road as a courier driver and you can call me at 8012436750 and let me know if you have any helpful advice. also i need some macro algae for my tank (red grape if you have it) and I will be giving away the triggerfish that it comes with if anyone wants it. thank you for your time and have a good night!
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In order to best help you we will need a little more info. From the picture I assume this tank you bought is currently running. Do you know how long? Does it have any livestock like inverts, coral or fish? How far is the move going to be? Does it come with the liverock and sand? Does it have a sump or refugium?
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the tank is coming in from ogden it has 50lbs of LR and live sand it comes with a decorator crab, a few tube worms and a triggerfish. it does not have a refugium or sump but I intend to build both of them in the next couple of months. it has a canister filter and some powerheads.
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Well the best thing to do would be to move the liverock rock fully submerged in tank water. The sand should be moved in the tank with at least 6 inches of water. If thats not possible I would buy new sand and seed it with a cup or two of the live stuff. When a sand bed gets moved it releases all kinds of nasty stuff that will be bad for your tank. I would bag each critter by themselves and put them all in a cooler. When you set the tank back up try to use as much water from the tank as you can and fill the rest with new salt water. I would then acclimate the critters to the new tank using drip acclimation. Then throw some macro algae in the tank. Test the water and dont add anything else until the pollution goes away.


By the way welcome to the club!

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Sounds pretty cool, I agree with wickedsnowman, I have some macro, what kind of trigger are you getting? We could give him a home in our tank.
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i can help you move the tank, i have the ways if you have the the rig to move it, i can get stuff and help you do so
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Hey thanks for all the help and support! Its really nice to get responses so quickly! @ deejay and brittany: I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the triggerfish but I'll let you know if I need to find a home for it. Thank you!
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Oh and I can't figure out where to find this utah sand and rock. Does anyone know where I can go to get that stuff?
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Originally posted by the seanze the seanze wrote:

Oh and I can't figure out where to find this utah sand and rock. Does anyone know where I can go to get that stuff?


Mark peterson is your guy for that hood good stuff he is wabhere on the boards somewhere ...
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The rock is pretty hard to find these days unless you have a shovel and alot of patience lol. The sand is everywhere out there the really white stuff is little harder to find but you still can. Antelope island is covered in utah rock but its all protected land;(
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